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Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Ashley Cosme and Nicholas Cosme
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Ashley and Nicholas Cosme at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 2022., Credit: Taken for StoryCorps
Ashley Cosme sits down with her husband, Nicholas, to talk about how they are keeping alive her father’s memory and his love of cars.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Rowan Allen and Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dorothy Salmon-Lindsay speaks with Rowan Allen, the EMT who saved her son’s life and inspired her to become a nurse.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 01:59
StoryCorps: Trent Andrews and Ginnie Peters
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ginnie Peters remembers her husband, Matt Peters, who committed suicide in May of 2011 after farming for more than 35 years. She spoke with Trent A...

Bought by WEZU and Enchantment Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Kristin Glasgow and Karen Offutt
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Kristin Glasgow (left) and Karen Offutt (right)
In the late 1960s, Karen Offutt was a patriotic teenager who got chills whenever she heard the “Star-Spangled Banner.” At 18, she dropped out of nu...

Bought by WDBM, WVBI-LP, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Father Noel Hickie and Marcia Hilton
From: StoryCorps
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Father Noel Hickie was working as a hospital chaplain when he met Marcia Hilton, a bereavement counselor, at a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. For 25 y...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
New Orleans Reconstruction Workers Fight to Remain
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Immigrants and supporters march down Poydras Street in New Orleans on July 10., Credit: Jasmin Mara Lopez
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Why do we wait so long? Jackie’s Journey to a home.
From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News
Caption: Jackie taking a break from building her house.
Dreams can be as simple as a home and a flower garden. Jackie walked by the Habitat for Humanity application for 2 years.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:33
Eva, Nanny
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Eva fled to the U.S. from El Salvador’s civil war more than 20 years ago. Since then, she’s cared for 11 kids – and mastered emotional calculus of ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
The Beat : Bill Caldwell - "Dog Days"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
StoryCorps: Daniel Ross
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Daniel Ross talks about being a volunteer firefighter while serving time in a minimum security prison.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Gloria and Lou Del Bianco
From: StoryCorps
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Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Mary Morris
From: StoryCorps
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Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
Is That My Imagination?
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The story of a mind on strike.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
54 Years
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 07:46
A Pirate Looks At Forty
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of a young fisherman in Maine.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:28
  • Purchases: 1
Don't Drive Like My Brother
From: Jonathan Menjivar
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The story of one man in desperate need of a job.

Bought by WJCT, PRX Remix, The Neighborhood, KUT, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2005
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 5
Saul and Joshua
From: Seth Lind
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A portrait of a subway musican duo struggling to stay together

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WYSO


  • Added: Dec 13, 2004
  • Length: 21:48
  • Purchases: 2
Solo One
From: Seth Lind
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A verite portrait of a subway gospel singer

  • Added: Dec 13, 2004
  • Length: 11:06
A Stop Along the Way
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
There's a love affair off Interstate 95 in Bangor, Maine.

Bought by WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, SALTcast Podcast, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 4